Category: Vacation
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Vacation long ago on Orcas Island
I’m on a posting roll here, I can’t post my end of year wrap-up with any outstanding posts to do, so let’s get this done! Orcas Island. In the San Juan Islands and accessible only by boat. We rented a house way up on a hill with Rebecca’s mother and step-father to get away from […]
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Christmas in the Carolinas
Our first travel in two years brought us to see my family in southern North Carolina. Weather was in the high 60s, Mia was in a great mood (minus the first three hours of our return flight), and there were cookies for days (as evidenced by my +5lbs). Boats, beaches, skateboards, cuddles, cards, Mancala, Jackbox, […]
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A Palm Springs Christmas
Well, kind of. We attempted to depart Portland early Christmas morning, but the guy who ran the jet bridge into our plane had other plans. After a two hour delay, our flight was cancelled. We were rerouted to San Francisco and an eight hour layover. We finally arrived at our hotel at 11pm as opposed […]
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The SE Asia Trip
With me being laid off the day before Rebecca was planning to announce a career change, it was clearly a a chance for a big vacation. Before I landed my new position we had bought flights in to Hanoi and out of Bangkok 23 days later. It was going to happen. Since college, I’d been […]
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Race and Vacation: Tahoe and Crater Lake
The Race Remember that time I nearly showed up in Tahoe for a race I didn’t sign up for? That just happened. Except luckily the race doesn’t sell out and I was able to register the night before. Had the race sold out, this would have been a double whammy as I was fortunate enough to […]
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Virginia Quickie
While it was a quick Friday to Tuesday trip, and the Race for Hope the primary objective, I managed to bounce around and accomplish quite a bit. <pats self on back> The hardest thing of having moved across the country aside from being so far from family has been being so far from my closest […]